Tips and Tricks for Dolphin Imaging Advanced Features · Basic Info Tab This tab appears when you...
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Tips and Tricks for Dolphin Imaging Advanced Features
Morphing
Using the Morph palette, you can creatively warp and stretch parts of an image. Morph is an excellent tool to
quickly change an image for communicating treatment goals with patients. This is also an excellent tool for
fine-tuning the soft tissue profile contour and touching up image enhancements.
After you morph an image, you may want to save or display the before and after images
side-by-side.
2D Movie Morphing
Movie Morphing feature lets you demonstrate the transformation from pretreatment to simulated or actual post-
treatment results.
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Presentation with Image Library
Easily set up a slide show of patient pictures for presentation purposes. Select any combination of
patient pictures, from any timepoints, to show the patient’s progress over time. Present patient images
as an online slide show, share patient images via email or over the Internet, drag-and-drop images
into other applications (such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint),
and print images.
Set up a new slide show or load an existing slide show you have
already set up and saved.
You can add images from the
current patient's timepoints or
from the image library.
To manually assign images to slides
Uncheck the same number of images per slide box.
Using the slider,
select the slide to
which you want
to add images.
Using the Image Library
Demonstrate how the patient might look with braces on, with straight teeth, or after a
bleaching procedure by overlaying images.
Replace a patient’s smile with one selected from an image library to show after treatment
results or the patient’s appearance with a variety of appliances. After you replace a pa-
tient’s smile with an image from the image library, display the before and after images
side-by-side.
You can Get Image, Add to Library, Rename, and Delete images from the library.
Once you have added an image from the image library, you can move that image using
the arrows, Restart will undo the last operation, Cntr to adjust the contrast, Int to ad-
just the intensity, Blur to adjust the blurriness, Sat to adjust the color Saturation.
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Annotations and Measurements
With annotations, you can add lines, arrows, ellipses, and
rectangles to your layout. You can also add text labels.
Right-click an image or Edit | Annotations and
Measurements.
Calibration- Calibrate an image.
Measurements- Measure distances and angles on the
patient's image.
Set the color, thickness, or
style (solid, dashed, or dashed-
dotted) by setting its
properties.
Enhanced Printing
Open the preview of a print
job in the Layout Editor so
that you can view and make
changes before printing. Any changes you make to the
print preview using the Dolphin Layout Editor apply to the
current print job only. They are not saved to the Dolphin
layout.
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Patient Lookup Features
Quickly search/sort the entire patient database using name, age, gender and norm. Other criteria: address, num-
ber, referring doctor, treating doctor, treatment diagnosis, etc. Even search based on cephalometric measure-
ments (when used), like incisor overjet, mandibular plane angle, etc.
Basic Info Tab
This tab appears when you open the Lookup Patient dialog box in advanced view. Initially, this tab is blank. Us-
ing this tab, you can:
select a patient from a list of patients matching search criteria that you entered
view information about the selected patient
view patient pictures
add, rename, or delete a patient
view or create timepoints for the patient
archive patient records or retrieve archived records
Options
Enable First-Initial-Last Name Search
This enable first initial, last name search. With this option disabled, if you type
"smi" in the Patient Lookup dialog box and click Find Now, Dolphin only lists
patients whose last name or patient ID begin with "smi." With this option ena-
bled, Dolphin also lists patients whose first initial is "s" and whose last name
begins with "mi."
Show Entire List
This displays your entire patient list in the Patient Lookup dialog box when it
first opens. This option is not recommended.
Live Search Check this box to begin the search automatically if you pause
momentarily when typing a search string.
Archive
Use archive to save or retrieve multi-patients.
Merge Timepoints from Archive. This al-
lows a patient archive file saved under a dif-
ferent ID number (from another practice/lab)
to be merged with the patient’s file with their
ID number from your practice.
Don’t let others modify the patient file(s)
when archived. Check this check box to
prevent anyone from making changes to this
archived patient. No changes can be made to
the archived patient until the patient’s record
is loaded again from archive.
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Patient Lookup Features, continued
Notes
Shows patient notes in the main window
via Edit | Notes on the menu bar.
Info Tab- search criteria such as demographic information or keywords for looking up patients.
Keyword Tips-
ABO
Oral Hygiene
Active Patients- Invisalign, Re-Tx
Records Tab- search criteria that selects patients based on their timepoints and images.
Diagnostics Tab- search criteria that selects patients based on diagnostic information entered for them using
the Questionnaire feature.
Cephalometrics Tab
Search criteria that selects patients based on cephalo-
metric information. On this tab, you select an analysis
and a measurement from that analysis. Then, you identi-
fy the range of values for the measurement that you
want to use to select patients.
Advanced Tab- perform previously-saved favorite searches, save or remove favorite searches, and enter ad-
vanced search criteria.
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Extras
Original records window
Display another image.
This feature is extremely helpful, it allows you to review the digital photo of the patient’s bite while digitizing
the ceph. Simply click on the Original records window and then right click to display the intraoral right image.
Add/modify custom structures
From the Digitizing module open the Custom Structures feature to manually draw structures or modify the automatically
drawn structures.
Add structure Calibrate Measure